[comp.lang.smalltalk] Little Smalltalk Questions

scott@shuksan.UUCP (Scott Moody) (09/15/88)

 I retrieved the Little Smalltalk program off the net a while back
and have been playing with it. Definitely nice to learn features
of smalltalk that I have read about but now get to try. The Little Smalltalk
book definitely helps and is well written. Unfortunately I can't seem
to get things to work like the book or the changes doc say. We have
version 2.02 (according to script.ini) and my specific problems are:

   Reading in a program with 
	  'f name:'filename'; open:'r'; fileIn'

   it seems that the file must be in the strange format where all
   methods start with:
     |
       Method <classname>  
	     <method_name> ...

   I can't read any smalltalk programs with 'normal' syntax as shown
   in the book.

   It looks like the 'parse' program reads in the normal syntax since
   in reads in 'basic.st' and 'unix.st', but this only creates a new
   'st' image. 

   Am I missing something?  Is there a newer version than 2.02 that has
   been posted that we missed? 

Thanks in advance, and thanks to Tim Budd for providing the program to the
public.

-- scott